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Ian Young (born January 5, 1945) is an English-Canadian poet, editor, literary critic, and historian. He was a member of the University of Toronto Homophile Association, the first post-Stonewall gay organization in Canada.[1][2] He founded Canada's first gay publishing company, Catalyst Press, in 1970,[1] printing over thirty works of poetry and fiction by Canadian, British, and American writers until the press ceased operation in 1980.[2] His work has appeared in Canadian Notes & Queries, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Rites and Continuum,[3] as well as in more than fifty anthologies.[4] He was a regular columnist for The Body Politic from 1975 to 1985[1] and for Torso between 1991 and 2008.[5]

Ian Young
Born	January 5, 1945
Occupation	non-fiction, journalism, poetry
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1970s-present
Notable works	The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature

Young is best known for his work as editor of the anthology The Gay Muse[6] and the bibliography The Male Homosexual in Literature.[7] He edited The Male Muse: A Gay Anthology, the first English-language anthology of poetry with gay male themes.[2] In 1974, a shipment of The Male Muse was seized and burned by British customs officials.[2]

He was interested in ceremonial magic during the 1980s and was a founding member of the Hermetic Order of the Silver Sword.[5]

His recent book, Encounters with Authors (2013), featured historical and critical essays on the work of three noted Canadian LGBT writers, Scott Symons, Robin Hardy and Norman Elder.[8]

Publications

• White Garland: 9 Poems for Richard (1969)
• Year of the Quiet Sun (1969)
• Double Exposure (1970, 2nd edition 1974)
• Lions in the Stream (1971) (with Richard Phelan)
• Some Green Moths (1972)
• Invisible Words (1974)
• The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography (1976; 2nd edition 1982)
• Common-or-Garden Gods (1976)
• Son of the Male Muse (1983)
• Gay Resistance: Homosexuals in the Anti-Nazi Underground (1985)
• Sex Magick (1986)
• The AIDS Dissidents: An Annotated Bibliography (1993)
• The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory (1995)
• The AIDS Cult: Essays On the Gay Health Crisis (1997) (with John Lauritsen)
• Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps (2012)
• Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder (2013)
• London Skin & Bones: The Finsbury Park Stories (2017)
• The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography Supplement (2020)

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers
• HIV/AIDS denialism
• Homoerotic poetry

References

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